About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Christians Against Pluralism "The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned." — William Rehnquist, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

Thought for the day: "Justice delayed is justice denied."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY

3D Full Moon

Credit & Copyright: Laurent Laveder (PixHeaven.net)Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation

EVENTS

● 455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.

● 553 - The Second Council of Constantinople closed. Led by Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople, the council condemned the Nestorian writings of Theodore of Mopsuestia, Theodoret of Cyprus and Ibas of Edessa.

● 575 - Benedict I becomes Pope.

● 597 - Augustine, missionary to England and first archbishop of Canterbury, baptized Saxon king Ethelbert. Afterward, the Christian faith spread rapidly among the Angles and Saxons.

● 657 - St Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 1098 - First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.

● 1738 - Writing of his contemporary, English revivalist George Whitefield penned in his journal: 'The good which John Wesley has done in America, under God, is inexpressible. His name is very precious among the people; and he has laid such a foundation that I hope neither man nor devils will ever be able to shake.'

● 1740 - Birth of writer and sex deviate Marquis de Sade, Paris. By order of the king and at his mother-in-law's request, the 23-year-old bridegroom of five months was imprisoned, in theory for excesses committed in a brothel he was frequenting for a month, but probably because he was spending his wife's money too fast. He then spent the next 27 years in prisons. To overcome boredom he started to write sexually graphic novels and plays.

● 1763 - Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.

● 1774 - Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to let British soldiers into their homes, is reenacted.

● 1793 - Jean-Paul Marat recites the names of 29 people to the French National Convention. Almost all of these are guillotined, followed by 17,000 more over the course of the next year during the Reign of Terror.

● 1897 - Mark Twain, at age 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration." He was responding to the rumors that he had died.

● 1899 - Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings

● 1902 - 2nd statewide initiative & referendum law adopted, in Oregon {Later when Arizona was trying to get statehood, President Taft would object to the inclusion of initiative and referendum clause in the new state Constitution and it was omitted. Within a year of being granted statehood it was reinstated in the state Constitution.}

● 1904 - Johnny Weissmuller, the Olympic gold medallist and actor famous for his portrayal of "Tarzan"was born.

● 1967 - Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.

● 1971 - U.S. Brigadier General John Donaldson charged with murder and assault in connection with an incident involving eight South Vietnamese civilians.

● 1975 - French sex workers occupied a Lyon church in protest against excessive fines and taxes, as well as a lack of police action against violence, thereby sparking the birth of the modern sex worker rights movement.

● 1977 - NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City

● 1977 - Native American activist Leonard Peltier sentenced in Fargo, North Dakota, to two consecutive life terms for the killing of two FBI agents, in one of the most corrupt trials in recent U.S. history.

● 1979 - Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.

● 1985 - UEFA bans English clubs from Europe; English clubs are banned from playing in Europe indefinitely, after the riot at Brussels' Heysel stadium in which 39 people died.

● 1985 - The R.J. Reynolds Company proposed a major merger with Nabisco that would create a $4.9 billion conglomerate. {Reynolds hoped this would provide some protection with the pending ant-smoking lawsuits.}

● 1992 - Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty by a thin margin in a national referendum.

● 1994 - MI5 officers killed in helicopter crash; Twenty of Britain's top intelligence experts are killed when a RAF helicopter crashes on the Mull of Kintyre.

● 1995 - United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone. He was rescued six days later.

● 1997 - Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in which 168 people were killed.

● 1998 - Royal Caribbean Cruises agreed to pay $9 million to settle charges of dumping waste at sea.

● 1998 - Voters in California passed Proposition 227. The act abolished the state's 30-year-old bilingual education program by requiring that all children be taught in English.

● 1998 - The CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan.

● 1999 - In South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) won a major victory. ANC leader Thabo Mbeki was to succeed Nelson Mandela as the nation's president.

● 1999 - The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.

● 2003 - In the U.S., federal regulators voted to allow companies to buy more television stations and newspaper-broadcasting combinations in the same city. The previous ownership restrictions had not been altered since 1975.

● 2003 - In Seville, Spain, a chest containing the supposed remains of Christopher Columbus were exhumed for DNA tests to determine whether the bones were really those of the explorer. The tests were aimed at determining if Colombus was currently buried in Spain's Seville Cathedral or in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.

● 2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that companies could not be sued under a trademark law for using information in the public domain without giving credit to the originator. The case had originated with 20th Century Fox against suing Dastar Corp. over their use of World War II footage.

● 2003 - William Baily was reunited with two paintings he had left on a subway platform. One of the works was an original Picasso rendering of two male figures and a recreation of Picasso's "Guernica" by Sophie Matisse. Sophie Matisse was the great-granddaughter of Henri Matisse.

● 2003 - Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.

● 2005 - Georgia "runaway bride" Jennifer Wilbanks pleaded no contest to faking her own abduction; she was sentenced to probation, community service and a fine.

● 2006 - Canadian authorities announced they had foiled a homegrown terrorist attack by arresting 17 suspects.

● Roman Catholic:● Solemnity of Corpus Christi (Body & Blood of Christ)● St. Adalgis● St. Alexander● St. Blandina● St. Bodfan● St. Erasmus (Elmo), martyr, patron of sailors● St. Eugene I (died 657)● St. Felix of Nicosia● St. John de Ortega● Martyrs of Lyons● Sts. Marcellinus and Petrus, martyrs (died 304)● St. Nicholas Peregrinus● Bl. Sadoc & Companions

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for May 19 (Civil Date: June 2)● Hieromartyr Patrick, Bishop of Prusa, and his companions: Presbyters Acacius, Menander, and Polyenus.● St. Cornelius, abbot of Komel (Vologda).● Martyr Acolothus of the Thebaid.● St. John, Bishop of Goths in Crimea.● St. John, prince of Uglich, tonsured as Ignatius (Vologda).● St. Sergius, monk of Shukhtov.● St. Cornelius, abbot of Paleostrov.

● Greek Calendar:● Martyrs Cyriaca and Theotima.● Commemoration of ascetics of St. Anthony of Syandem Monastery: Elias (also of Valaam), Theophanes, and Dionysius.

● Greek Orthodox:● St. Nicephorus

● Anglican:● Commemoration of the martyrs of Lyons

● Bhutan : Coronation Day

● Iceland : Seaman's Day

● Italy's Festa della Repubblica (Republic Day), which commemorates the birth of the Repubblica Italiana and the end of the monarchy.

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